Site Reliability Engineer with Ansible

The Digital Modernization Sector has an opening for a Site Reliability Engineer with Ansible to work in Woodlawn, MD.

Leidos is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer with Ansible to be part of the mission solution and help lead digital modernization strategy. We are a team of forward-looking professionals in need of a strong candidate with these key required skills: Ansible Automation, Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) Administration, Jenkins Administration, Checkmarx Administration, and Availability Monitoring / Triage (Splunk, Dynatrace).

This position will require onsite work in Woodlawn, MD five days a week

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• Build, maintain, automate, ensure reliability, and implement next-generation software factory using system/software engineering best practices and the latest technologies:
  
  • DevOps (Jenkins, Nexus / NXRM Repository, Checkmarx, SonarQube, BlackDuck, Red Hat OpenShift, Docker)
  • Infrastructure-as-Code and Configuration-as-Code (Ansible, Scripting, UrbanCode Deploy)
• Administer Atlassian Suite including installing, migrating, upgrading, deploying, troubleshooting, and configurating on Linux.
• Provide on-call support for next-generation software factory
• Provide subject matter expertise in one or more of these areas: automation, security, monitoring and alerting, incident response optimization, Atlassian suite including plugin administration, and other CI/CD tools.
• Investigate and actively support with operational team to ensure business continuity regardless of component: front-end, business logic, middleware, networking, CI/CD pipeline, or database (PL/SQL and Data Modeling).
• Brief management, customer, team, or vendors using written or oral skills at appropriate technical level for audience
• All other duties as assigned or directed

Education/Experience: (Required Qualifications):

This experience is the foundation a candidate needs to be successful in this position:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field and 8 years of relevant experience OR Masters degree with 6 years of relevant experience. Additional years of experience may be substituted/accepted in lieu of degree.
• 8+ years of combined experience with system administration of Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket), Checkmarx, Jenkins, and RHEL Linux.
• 4+ years of experience with Ansible automation.
• 2+ years of experience in on-call operation support role for a mission critical system.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance.

Factors to Help You Shine: (Required Qualifications):

These skills will help you succeed in this position:

• Strong experience with Ansible Automation and authoring playbooks and roles for installing, maintaining, or upgrading platforms.
• Solid experience using version control software such as Git/Bitbucket including peer reviewing playbooks.
• Hands-on experience administrating Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) and Checkmarx via Ansible playbooks.
• Experience creating complex Jira workflows, projects, service desk, custom configurations, notifications, etc.
• Solid experience triaging and monitoring complex issues, outages, and incidents as part of on-call support rotation.
• Strong experience in automating tasks with scripting languages like Shell, or Python.
• Solid experience with integrating/maintaining with various 3rd party CI/CD tools.
• Solid foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration.
• Basic networking skills.
• Experience analyzing, researching, maintaining, and integrating Atlassian tool plugins.

How to Stand Out from the Crowd (Desired Qualifications):

Showcase your knowledge of modern development through the following experience or skills:

• Experience with Ansible Tower.
• Delivery (CI/CD) best practices and use of DevOps to accelerate quality releases to Production.
• Atlassian Suite administration certifications.
• AWS cloud certifications.
• Experience creating complex Jira workflows, projects, service desk, custom configurations, notifications, etc.
• Experience with AWS administration (EC2, S3, ELB, EBS/EFS/S3).
• Experience with PaaS using Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes and Docker containers.

Original Posting:
April 29, 2025
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:
Pay Range $104,650.00 - $189,175.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.